A look at what’s happening around the majors today: BIG TEST The Cubs are sending star slugger Anthony Rizzo for an MRI after he sprained his right ankle Sunday, hoping the first baseman can still help with their postseason push. Rizzo was injured fielding a bunt at first base in the third inning during a […]
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The loss of 5% of world crude oil output from an attack on Saudi Arabia’s largest oil processing plant pushed crude prices sharply higher on Monday. U.S. crude oil was trading 9% higher while Brent crude added more than 10%. The attack on the Saudi Aramco facility halted output of more than half of Saudi
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Image copyright Getty Images For people with food allergies, dining out can be stressful and in some cases, life-threatening or fatal. This week the grieving family of Owen Carey, who died from anaphylactic shock after unwittingly eating Byron Burger’s buttermilk marinated chicken, demanded a change in the law to compel eateries to display full and
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe 18-carat golden toilet was previously displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York Blenheim Palace’s security measures “need to be challenged” after an 18-carat gold toilet was stolen from the stately home, its chief executive said. Dominic Hare said a gang “mounted a very fast smash-and-grab
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Image caption Aldi’s profits fell 18% last year Aldi plans to open a new store in the UK every week on average for the next two years, its boss has told the BBC. Giles Hurley said the discount retailer would invest £1bn to achieve its aim. “The reality is that almost 50% of the population
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Kobe Bryant went to China for the first time in 1998, making the trip to Beijing to help operate an instructional basketball clinic for about a dozen kids. The local coaches working with him didn’t know a lot about the game. Barely anyone noticed that an NBA player was in town. Interested in NBA? Add
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Image copyright Marvel Studios Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo has reacted to Boris Johnson’s comments in which he compared the UK leaving the EU to the green superhero. In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, the prime minister said Hulk “always escaped, no matter how tightly bound in he seemed to be”. But Hollywood star
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Image copyright Joshua Browder Image caption Joshua Browder’s first creation was an algorithm that fights parking fines. A service which automatically cancels subscriptions at the end of the free trial period has launched in the UK. It was developed by Josh Browder, who as a teenager developed an algorithm called Do Not Pay, which continues
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CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES, France — When Bernard Colin took over as caretaker of this city’s cemetery 27 years ago, his predecessor gave him some remarkably non-prescient advice: “Don’t worry, you won’t be bothered by the grave of Arthur Rimbaud — no one visits it.” Now 60, Mr. Colin collects a few letters every week, from as far
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CARDIFF, Wales — A few hours before a recent Wales-Ireland rugby match in Cardiff, amid throngs of fans dressed in team colors of red and green, and sidewalk merchants selling scarves and flags, police officers popped out of a white van. The officers stopped a man carrying a large Starbucks coffee, asked him a series
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